by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 9, 2021 | Atheism, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Prayer, Suffering
Christians in China (100 million) are facing severe persecution. Nina Shea in a National Review article (August 2, 2021) describes the persecution by the Chinese Communist Party. Thousands of churches are being closed and demolished, Christian teaching is being...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 2, 2021 | Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness
I am trying to avoid paying much attention to the news as it is uniformly negative and obsessed with certain political and medical topics. All too often it is slanted and sensationalistic. Most of us go about our daily lives concerned with our immediate wellbeing and...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 22, 2021 | Church, Faith, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
“Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching.” (Hebrews 10:24,25, The Message) One of the casualties of the pandemic has...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 19, 2021 | Bible, God, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Sexuality, The World, Witness, Worship
What comes to your mind when you think of the Garden of Eden? Paradise? A place of happiness and fulfillment? It is the vision of life in all its fullness. The Bible is book-ended by descriptions of the garden of God in Genesis 2 and Revelation 22. It is hard for us...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 16, 2021 | Aging, Faith, God, Jesus
There remains a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest (Hebrews 4:1-11). Helmut Thielicke (1908-1986) wrote: I often think...
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